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Summary: Buy it and start reading...
Review: "Everything's Eventual" changed the way I viewed short stories and it turned me into a Stephen King fan. It's a great mix of disturbing and scary stories..too bad there's only 14 of them in the book. The author's comments before or after each story are also very enjoyable to read.My favorites are 1408, The Road Virus Heads North, and The Man in the Black Suit...but I really like all of them!
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Summary: 2 of the 14 tales takes the cake
Review: Autopsy room 4 and 1408 are the best tales in this collection and are already worth the price of the book. The real Stephen King fan must be cautioned though the some of the tales here are rehashed stories in different guises and some in my opinion are just plain lemons.
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Summary: Disappointed?!
Review: King's synonymous to horror fiction but unfortunately, it's otherwise this time round - disappointed despite the raves about his book. Instead of page-turning, it lulls you to sleep.
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Summary: I think its time
Review: for Stephen King to retire. There is only one truly brilliant story in this collection: The Man in the Brown Suit. It chilled me like King's stuff always used to. The rest, except for Little Sisters is filler. Everything's Eventual is also something of a rip off. Most of these stories aren't new to any regular King reader. Several are from his Blood & Smoke book that was supposed to be available only in audio form. This was a beautifully packaged disappointment.
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Summary: Casual Conversation
Review: King is so amazingly and easily readable, that even some of these not-great stories entertain. They read like casual conversation, and offer up nothing in the form of regret. As a result, the overlong "Riding the Bullet" and "The Death of Jack Hamilton" don't irritate as much as they simply fade. Many of King's themes pop up here, the best and most easily recognized being the title story. "Everything's Eventual" features a young man with special powers that is enlisted by a Shop-type agency to do possibly dirty deeds. But, as the boy is young and not particularly bright, he follows along, feeling important for the first time. The undertone of loneliness and neediness in this story is what really sticks with you. Perhaps King (with his own special powers) is most able to identify with this recurring character trope.
"Lunch at the Gotham Cafe" and "1408" are great shockers. "1408" really does creep, and adds some new scary material to perhaps the oldest horror subgenre: the haunted house. "Lunch at the Gotham Cafe" takes a disintigrating marriage, and quite literally puts it to the grindstone. This one stands out as a story not just about what it seems to be about. It is as multilayered as any piece of fine literature. "The Little Sisters of Elluria" takes place in the Darktower world, and is a fun aside for Darktower fans. Not only that, its an effective story in itself, though one with an episodic feel due to the lack of Roland's character arc. In fact, he is just passing through. The remaining stories don't stand out for me. "The Road Virus Heads North" was silly, and has been done before, by King and others. "Autopsy Room Four" was well told, but again, its almost cliche now. I believe Poe got the closest to perfecting that one. A handful of non-horror non-supernatural stories stand out as worthy attempts, but fail to hit the mark. "L.T.'s Theory of Pets" gets very close, but nothing near to some of the remarkable work done in "Hearts in Atlantis". Despite the three star rating above, King is still one of the best, and his short stories often rank among his finest works. One could do a lot worse than reading this one.
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Summary: cool book
Review: I only read halfway of this book, but I thought this book was pretty cool. I expected this book to be more unreal, and scary to the point I could not sleep, but it was not like that. The stories that I read so far seem realistic, and that might give a person goosebumps if they see through the characters point of view(i.e. "autopsy room 4" and "In a deathroom"). I think the the stories are easy to read and understand. Some of the short stories were a bit slow just because I didn't have interest in the plot of the stories; however, some of the stories were funny, descriptive, and thrilling.
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Summary: good but not what I expected
Review: When I started the book with "Autopsy Room Four" I thought all the stories were going to be as scary or even scarier than it. But some of the stories were really not all that scary at all. They were all interesting and I did enjoy reading every one. I just expected them to be really scary. My top two favorite short stories from the book are "Autopsy Room Four" and "Lunch at the Gotham Café." "Autopsy Room Four" kept me reading to see if the doctors would really kill him in the room. "Lunch at the Gotham Café," I thought was a very well written story. I liked the main character and how he dealt with every situation.
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Summary: Great reading
Review: This book is great because the stories go right to the point and they are not as descriptive as in other King's books. Each story has its own "flavor" and it manages to surprise the reader. Not all stories can be described as "spooky" some of them are meant just to leave you with an uneasy feeling. But all stories are entertaining and once you start reading one you will not be able to stop until the end.
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Summary: Can't shake it off...
Review: When I was younger, I was a big fan of Stephen King because I loved horror stories and his were entertaining. But the scene descriptions would almost put me to sleep so I stopped reading his novels. Then I tried this one out after a few years. But after reading the tacky comment at the end of "Autopsy Room Four", I returned the book. Agatha Christie apparently had a story with a snake in it that was called an African boomslang. King stated that he liked the word so much that he "had to put it in the story" but changes the snake to a Peruvian boomslang. Fine. But then he cracks a very NOT AMUSING joke about how the word he liked was "boomslang, not African" to make a more noticeable point. He went out of his way to state that when it was unnecessary and offensive. He could've summed it up to liking the word boomslang, but instead he made a major point in talking about how he changed the name, etc. First it was the scene descriptions that I thought were long-winded, not it's the novels altogether. I am not a fan of his (lack of) humor or his novels.
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Summary: A 5-star dust cover
Review: Perhaps I should read short story collections more often. They're easy to review; assign a score to each story, add 'em up, and determine the average. So, let's apply the formula to EVERYTHING'S EVENTUAL. The star values for the 14 chapters are, in the order they appear: 5, 3, 1, 1, 4, 2, 1, 3, 4, 4, 3, 5, 3, and 2. The total is 41, and the average 2.9285714. OK, ok - we'll call it 3. The two five-stars in the lot belong to "Autopsy Room 4" and "1408". In the former, a golfer wakes up completely paralyzed and speechless in an autopsy room. He was pronounced dead after a mysterious mishap on the green, and now they're about to autopsy his "corpse". In the latter, a skeptical writer of books about haunted places takes a room for the night in The Dolphin, a New York hotel, despite the manager's earnest attempts to dissuade him. As it turns out, the room isn't so much haunted as alive. As an example from the other end of the spectrum, there's "The Death of Jack Hamilton", the tedious tale about the lingering demise of a mortally wounded, 1930s gangster. Or the listless "All That You Love Will Be Carried Away", in which a travling salesman contemplates suicide in a Motel 6 along I-80 west of Lincoln, NE. I especially liked the concept of the artwork on the front dust cover of my hardback copy. It shows a blood droplet descending to the bottom of a water-filled goblet standing amidst a table setting. It was inspired by the 4-star "Lunch At the Gotham Cafe". In "L.T.'s Theory of Pets" (3 stars), I discovered a nugget which, if not wisdom, is a nicely phrased metaphor about emotional volatility in marriage: "In marriage, words are like rain. And the land of a marriage is filled with dry washes and arroyos that can become raging rivers in almost the wink of an eye." In the Introduction, author Stephen King asserts that writing short stories is, for him at least, an exercise in "dues paying". Indeed, he states that writing these fourteen was not so pleasurable except for "L.T.'s Theory of Pets" and the title story, "Everything's Eventual". But for the fact that King desires to keep alive the art of the Short Story, it therefore wasn't clear to me why he needs the bother regardless of the entertainment value afforded the reader. Hasn't he paid his dues to the literary world?
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